Publisher Chapman & Hall was projecting a series of "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour.

Their guns were to go off by accident, and fishhooks were to get caught in their hats and trousers, and these and other misadventures were to be depicted in Seymour's comic plates.

[1] They asked Dickens to supply the description necessary to explain the plates and to connect them into a sort of picture novel that was fashionable at the time.

He suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" should make journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members of the club.

[12] Pickwick learns that the only way he can relieve the suffering of Mrs Bardell is by paying her costs in the action against himself, thus at the same time releasing himself from the prison.

[7][13] Pickwick, Sam Weller, and his father Tony briefly reappeared in 1840 in the magazine Master Humphrey's Clock.

See: Mr. Pickwick in Master Humphreys Clock Edition at the Ex-Classic Web Site The novel has been adapted to film, television, and radio: In 1985 BBC released a 12-part 350-minute miniseries starring Nigel Stock, Alan Parnaby, Clive Swift and Patrick Malahide.

[17] In 1977, BBC Radio 4 released a dramatization by Barry Campbell and Constance Cox with Freddie Jones as Mr.

[20] Pickwick by Cyril Ornadel, Wolf Mankowitz, and Leslie Bricusse was a musical version which premiered in Manchester in 1963 before transferring to the West End.

Although it was a major success in London, running for 694 performances, Pickwick failed in the United States when it opened on Broadway in 1965.

In 1969, the BBC filmed the musical as the TV movie Pickwick with Secombe and Castle reprising their stage roles.

Both the stage and TV versions featured the song If I Ruled the World, which became a hit for Secombe and other singers such as Tony Bennett and Sammy Davis Jr. Part of The Pickwick Papers were featured in Charles Dickens' Ghost Stories, a 60-minute animation made by Emerald City Films (1987).

He located the duel between Mr. Winkle and Dr. Slammer at Fort Pitt, Chatham,[22] close to Ordnance Terrace where he had lived as a boy between 1817 and 1821.